illustration and storyline carousels

1) Base: #24! C’min! #24! What did you do with that thing in your hand? Mech Shark: I took a life. Base: Boy, You fuckers don’t waste any time do you? Srgt. Are you sure these things are glitch less?----Hmmm, O.K. Apparently you’re in perfect working order, #24? Mech Shark: Waiting for orders. Base: Your mouths were stitched up so that people knew to stay away. This is the last time you’ll ever be in human form. Drop the thing and get in the lake and morph, than give me a full systems check. Mech Shark: Affirmative. M.O.T.T. fully operational. Base: Affirmative, state primary objective. Mech Shark: Patrol the depths of the ocean during the day, and patrol the shorelines at night. Base: Affirmative.////

2) Back in 1975 Richard Tomy was a New Yorker, and just a young little boy. Usually in the summers he and his family: Father Sam, Mother Brenda, older brother Ben, with a baby girl on the way, vacationed in a small shore community off the coast of New England. His father served as chief of police in that shore community. Their family fell terrorized by rogue great whites. They fed on the shores of that community twice on two different time periods Richard had even found himself in a state of shock on one of these such shark occasions. Beyond the boys trauma he later became a Marine Biologist so that he could come to peace with his lasting terror. Only to find again he, his brother and sister would be terrorized at the aquarium they worked at by yet another great white. Richard left Marine biology. In 2016 he devoted his life to Marine technology. If terror at sea with sharks could not be bargained with he was sure going to keep people safe through sea machines. It was in 2013 that Ocean Dagger Inc. sought out Richard for his expertise, over what seemed like the most ambitious national defense and border defense initiatives. Run by President Spencer Dichotomy, Richard was exuberant and enthralled to take the job as head design director and coordinator. Fully automated organic mechanical Great Whites out fitted with weaponry and capacity for shore line protection and patrol of land by night hours. Not only for reconnaissance, but for shore safety with beach communities! They were fully equipped to engage enemy as large in scope as a nuclear submarine. They were only 8 feet long. Richard was in. Senior exec: Mr. Dichotomy wished for me to inform you that phase 1 of the Mobile operated terror techs have been deployed for testing. Richard: Excellent. Senior Exec: Well then I’ll be on my way. Richard: Oh, and please leave the manifest of that deployment on my desk? Senior Exec: surely Little did Richard know that the Mech Sharks were deployed in the summer of 1985.////

3) Zeus: Can’t look at me can you? Anam: Hrmph!! Fracturra: What’s with the polo shirt and the cigar? Zeus: Hey!! You know who you’re talking to here!? Fracturra: Zeus? Zeus: Right, hey I’m on vacation at my restaurant. Beside’s I like George Burns. Fracturra: And the egg? Zeus: making deviled eggs. Get it? Deviled eggs? Fracturra: I’m not finding the humor here, Look at Anam? Zeus: Hey!! Anam!! Look at me? No huh? Listen you’re being given an historic opportunity here. Fracturra: Are you going to fix his wing? Zeus: no. Anam: So! What am I supposed to do? Walk around with useless wings? Or hide? Zeus: No! Anam: Maybe just cut off stumps on my back, huh? Zeus: no Anam: uhhhggg!!!! Zeus: Look!! I’m trying to tell you this is an opportunity. You are to be a man!! Anam: This is a mission, I just know this is a mission. What kind of mission? Zeus: There is a man, who works for a corporation tinkering around with sharks. He is to be stopped. There is another man named Jeff Scott?! He was the friend of this corporate man in High School?! You are to find this man Jeff who goes by the name Dunce now. Dunce is what he calls himself. You are to help Dunce to engage with this corporate man named Richard?! So that Mr. shark Richard understands the he is to relinquish his life. Anam: Why? Zeus: Left unstopped the rapid regeneration of these clone sharks will wipe out humanity. There is a marker in the clone sharks gene code. In the manner of how they created these clone sharks was a deception. The gene code marker is from a genetic splice straight from Richard Tomy’s genes. With Mr. Tomy's life line severed line all sharks will cease. A failsafe killswitch if you will, in case something goes wrong. And it did. Other than that his company is lying to him. Anam: And if I say no? Zeus: Hey!!! I just saw my world light up with Man kind’s bombs. I’m not ready to see it end. Not yet! Anam: I see. Zeus: If you succeed Fracturra here will be your wife. Anam: And if I fail? Zeus: You won’t. I will give you a full dossier on Ocean Dagger Inc. for you to present to Dunce. Anam: Why me? Zeus: You were his guardian Angel weren’t you?//// 

4) Spencer: There’s been a change in plans. Joint chief 2015: I didn’t authorize that!! Spencer: The four brothers won the battle. Joint chief 2015: What four brothers!!? Spencer: It’s difficult to explain, I gambled most of our plan on four brothers vs. my operatives. I depended upon the weakness of these four brother’s. My operatives were defeated and fled. To make a long story short. I blame it on a case of encephalitis my one operative had. Joint chief 2015: What the fuck are you talking about!!? This project cannot fail!!!! Spencer: Look!! I subsidize the money here for this project. Without me you have nothing. My way or the highway chief! I’ve put most of the project into the hands of the pentagon administration of the year 1985. So, chief you’re on the phone with and I introduce you for the second time to the Joint chief of staff from 1985. Joint chief 2015: What!!!!! I didn’t authorize this!!!! How the God damned fuck did you do this!!! Spencer: Think the orbital. Joint chief 2015: Ohhh!!! That fucking explains it!! Wait!! How the fuck did you get that!!!? Spencer: I had to take some liberties. Joint chief 1985: You know!! You’re pissing me off Spencer!! Spencer: Look, I proved this to both of you already. Remember? Chief Adam’s and Chief Johnson? When you met at the board room meeting at the Pentagon? Joint chief 2015: Right! I remember that. Joint chief 1985: Me too! Spencer: Well! You met! I didn’t say the year. Joint chief 2015: That orbital had better be returned!!! Spencer: It will. Joint chief 1985: What’s an orbital? Spencer: Involves time travel. Joint chief 1985: You mentioned time travel but not any orbital. Joint chief 2015: Wait!!!! I thought you said you didn’t mention the year? Spencer: Well. I told Johnson of 1985. Joint chief 2015: When do we see the M.O.T.T.s!?? Spencer: In a month when the units are O.K.’d on the test field and functioning. Joint chief 2015: Spencer!!!!! You and me!!! In my office in a week!!! Click!!!!!////

5) Pencil: Have you seen this box? Operative: No, why? Pencil: It’s important. I need it to return the precious militaries Orbital. Operative: Nope! Haven’t seen it. Why do you need it to return the Orbital? Pencil: It’s an intrinsic part of portal jumping! See, I jumped into the Orbital to start travel, and went to the same time period outside the Orbital and used the box to swallow up the orbital and myself to bring it to 1985 and leave it there. Then I used the box to jump through the portal again to get back to the present here and now. But I can’t find the fricken box to go back and get the orbital. Operative: Nope! Haven’t seen it. Pencil: Shit!!!!//// 

6) Night was when the Mech Sharks usually went all wrong. Something within the synthesis that should not have happened between the clone sharks and Fernando made the Mech Sharks programming excessively botched. Instead of patrolling the shore lines for public safety, the Mech Sharks engaged upon frenzied and uncontrollable kill sprees. Random and without objective! All on dry land! Their anatomies were designed to morph for on shore patrol. //// 

7) Alone; half way up the mountain Dunce felt a great pain, that maybe a great friend had been lost. He did not know why. After sitting on a rock for most of the day a strange man to him named Anam, the angel had just finished his trek up the mountain to meet with Dunce. Anam: Ahh! There you are. I have been looking for you. Dunce: Do I know you? Anam: In a strange way you might. Dunce: Are you an angel? Anam: What makes you say that? Dunce: I thought I saw a wing. But it’s gone now. Is there something I can do for you? I’m quite unhappy right now. Anam: To be blunt, there is a man named Richard Tomy. You might remember Him? Dunce: An old High School friend. Yeah! Anam: He has become a man who holds an ultimate peril over the world. Think about sharks in lakes they don’t belong. Dunce: I remember that. The issue with the sharks is even greater than that. According to him! Wait a minute? Did you say sharks in lake? Anam: You see it. You must come. I will explain everything.////

8) Within weeks, the Mech sharks rediscovered the orbital, and began creating and causing great calamities with their new found abilities with the orbital technology. They realized they could travel around the time period. With extreme ferocity and fervor they took an avid liking to dismantling jets in flight. Over a series of month’s Jet crashes increased exponentially, all of them at the hands of the Mech sharks. With the rapidity and rate in which the Orbital cloned the beasts all of humanity would eventually be wiped out and replaced with this new king of the food chain.////

9) Atop of Devil’s tower “Fake” had made his stand before Ganesh. The God of war was about to kill him. Fake: You cannot win! Ganesh grabbed him by the throat. Ganesh: And by what concept can we not win? Fake: (gasping through Ganesh’s finger) by the concept of freedom!!!!! Ganesh had seen the truth of it, and could not deny it. The God had decided to leave his death to chance happenstance. Maybe Fake would die? Maybe he wouldn’t? He flung Fake from the top of the tower, and Ganesh and the rest of his cohort’s fled like cowards from the defeat of the fight. Quickly Retsam Yeknom ran to the aid of Fake. Coolridge: Is he all right? Agent Tree observed. Tedrick and Keenan huffed and puffed from exhaustion. Retsam Yeknom: His concussion is massive; I sense major bleeding of the brain. He might not make it. Hurry, We must move quickly to save him.//// 

10) The first place Dunce and Anam looked for Richard was his California coast home light house. Dunce just naturally felt he would be there. But Richard was not. Dunce knelt down to touch the ground to get a sense of how long it had been since Richard had been there. Something of Budu sense was growing in him. It had felt like it had been months since Richard had been there. Dunce: You’re quite elusive on one thing still. I know you explained most of everything, but you’re sketchy on what I have to do. Anam: I assure you, I will be getting to that. Dunce: There goes that flash spec tor of wings again. Anam: What wings? Dunce: Do you know Retsam Yeknom? Anam: Who? Dunce: Never mind.//// 

11) An order had come through the wire to two Mech sharks by way of their internal radios. The order was given by Spencer and the Flaming Roicket, and wired by the Pentagon. Senator Carl Wager’s of Utah was dabbling in what might be high treason. Eliminate the senator. It took a long travel but these two mech sharks were also derivative of a lake. Salt Lake. Carl Wager’s who was running for another bid for office would never see that bid. After Killing the senator the alpha dog mech shark grabbed the beta dog mech shark and shouted. Alpha shark: I’m gonna make a fuckin’ killer out of you yet. You just loaf, sit there and watch and do nothing. Alpha shark punched him in the chest! Beta shark: (gasping) But I don’t want to. Alpha shark: Do as your fuckin’ programming tells you. Alpha tossed beta in a heap on the floor. Beta collected himself disgracefully. ////

12) After weeks in Richard’s light house with no television and nothing but beer to drink, and each other to keep themselves company; drunk, Dunce passed out in a chair. Anam rested in the upstairs. Based on a report from a neighbor, Richard returned to his home with his own sole Mech shark guard. He found Dunce and Anam. Richard: It’s my High School friend Jeff Scott. I have not seen him in decades. There is a winged creature with him. I know you have explained phenomenon of other kinds but a strange a man with wings. Spencer: Ahhhhh! A soul I’ve been looking for this Jeff Scott. Do you think he knows? Richard: I don’t know, but I’m going to find out. Spencer: by all means do. I’m concerned about this winged man. Do not touch it! Report back to me your findings. Richard imagined after cut off of communication that Spencer was crazy. Richard turned on his cloak Teflon light bending suit so as not to be seen or identified. He questioned Dunce under the influence of Sodium Barbital, and found out little. Some! But little. Richard decided to leave Dunce where he was to return in a couple of weeks to greet Dunce in the aware’s. Dunce awoke in the morning remembering nothing.////

13) Sky dancer: Spitfire!!!!! You’ve got strange company!!!!? Spitfire: You don’t think I Fuckin noticed that!!!!!? Sky dancer: Sky dancer to base!! Sky dancer to base!!!! Unexplainable hostile UFO!!! Stand by. How the fuck did that thing get up…………….. Spitfire: Jesus F’n Christ!!!! It’s trying to break through the fuckin’ cockpit!!!! The Mech shark eliminated the jet fighter and then jumped across the skies to Sky dancer and eliminated his jet fighter too.////

14) Polygon transport was called. Itsu Motors had been sitting on the ball of a missed shipment of 400 Itsu automobiles, and the local dealer was desperately running out of inventory to sell. The local dealer had been waiting for weeks. The corporate manufacturer of Itsu Auto’s CEO in Japan barked at Polygon for their pathetic excuses and blunder of the cargo shipment delay. This verbal blasting lasted for most of a day. So, in a desperate move, because cargo ships would take at least another week, and quite under the radar of custom’s, Polygon made a bold move with a fleet of cargo Jets. Something never done before. Unfortunately on this day of flight of this such fleet the Mech sharks could not help themselves. 400 Automobiles rained down on a peaceful town. ////

15) However; underwater, the mech sharks did precisely as they were programmed to do.////

16) Dunce had wanted a night out. So, a miles walk down the road from the light house Anam and Dunce went to a local watering hole. It was when dunce was a third into his third Fallstaff beer; trying to learn from the wisdom of Anam through conversation that a rabble rouser attempted to pick a fight with Dunce. The bully claimed that Dunce looked like a sorry shit in a stupid hat. Dunce could not help but spill his beer from the shaking the bully was putting him through. “Don’t let me see you in here again” the bully belted him brashly. He then turned his back. Anam explained, “Look, You keep putting up with shit like that people are going to walk all over you” as his failed guardian angel, he secretly felt shame, but did not show it. “You know, you’re right” Dunce said, and a spark lit in Dunce’s mind, perhaps not the most of right kind of sparks, but a spark none the less. So Dunce got up and socked the bully in the face.////

17) In Jail. Anam: I was not expecting to wind up here. Dunce: Could be a week before the judge hears the case. So get used to it. Anam: I wasn’t exactly expecting you to go that far in the bar. Dunce: it felt right. Anam: Hmmmm. Well. Seeing as we’re going to be here a while I have more that needs explaining to you.//// 

18) After being released from jail on a small fine, Anam and Dunce entered a munitions shop. Dunce: Explain to me why I need this again? Anam: Nothing will get it through to you except to witness the reality. Dunce: I could hate you right now. Anam: There are events that will happen. They will show themselves to you. Just remember your windsurfing with the shark. Dunce: How do you know these things will happen? Anam: All military acts alike. With all of Anam’s revelations, Dunce began to see the price his own family has paid.//// 

19) All the while the Mech sharks were learning much of the Orbital, Computer systems on board detailed all there was to know of it. They finally learned that all that was needed was to acquire a pocket box. But where to find it they did not know? If found, conquest of the world and more could be made. Even an entertaining of a conquest of which man could not foresee. But the American flag still stood planted on the moons soil.////

20) And then finally, while Dunce and Anam discussed a few things on the dock at the lighthouse; Richard and his sole Mech guard appeared, with a test to show their resolve. Richard instructed the shark to deal with Anam promptly. Richard: So winged thing. What are the likes of you anyhow? Pay attention out shore J. Scott!!! You’ll see what we mean. A Hydrogen bomb exploded out to sea. It did not take long to feel the heat from the detonation. Richard: You see how serious this is. But my superior, Spencer Dichotomy is mostly concerned with your friend here with the wings and he knows what you are winged man. There is no interfering with this countries national defense strategy. No matter what you are. Angel!!! We are seizing full control of the advantage left this country after the war, and America will not fall again, I do not know what you mean to do angel but from here there is no foreword. Show the creature what I mean Mech!! The shark Struck Anam so that he would fall to his knees and then ripped Anam’s wings off of his back. Dunce who could never register them as a reality was astonished that his short visions were not his imagination. Anam: It is as I told you Dunce.////

21) Dunce: You belligerent psycho!!!! Richard: What!!! You’re allowed to go!!? I at least secured that for you from my superior. Mr. Dichotomy is only interested in the winged creature. Dunce: Do you even know what the fuck these sharks freaks are doing!! They’re killing everything!! Richard: I was not aware of this. Dunce: There not here Moron!!!! It starts at the lake decades ago!!!!! Richard: Oh God!!!!! Up on high!!!! The arrogance of you!!! What!! your dad’s business lake!!??? So what!! There must be something I forgot. I’m sure my boss Spencer can straighten it out! Oh, and by the way. No fucking with national security!!! Completely flabbergasted and at wits end Dunce looked up for answers, and looked up for answers, until his mind anguished at the only answer that would come. Richards code marker written in the DNA of the sharks!!! Diplomacy had left him. In abandon with himself, Dunce drew the Glock automatic from tucked in the back of his pants and shot Richard dead in the head. For a moment the mech shark seemed stunned, and momentarily it made gestures that it was about to charge an attack. It instead vaporized into thin air, and subsequently so did all the other mech sharks in the year 1985. Up the slope the Angel collected himself As Dunce followed. Dunce: What will you do now? Can you return from where you come? You lost your wings?!! Anam: (sigh) I am to be a man now. Dunce: ………………………………………I’m not.////